“I’d like to thank my Senate Republican colleagues for their unwavering support and look forward to working with Majority Leader Darrell Steinberg and the Governor on the state budget and other issues facing California,” Huff said in a statement.

Huff optimistically says Gov. Jerry Brown has “indicated” he will work with Republicans “when possible.”

In a Legislature lopsidedly controlled by Democrats and destined to become even more so in this year’s redrawn Assembly and Senate district elections, what the Democratic Gov. likely means is something other than what his words would suggest.

Brown no doubt will work with Republicans. To show them how to vote Yes rather than No on all those Democratic proposals that flood the Legislature. And he no doubt will have plenty of advice on how Republicans can help support the variety of proposals likely to crowd the November ballot to increase taxes.

Yeah, Brown will “work with” in the way poison works with your digestive system. He’ll show Republicans how to kill off their party and the last barrier to unfettered taxing and spending. Good luck Sen. Huff.

Here’s a suggestion: Republicans would do more of a service to continue blocking as much of this leftward march as they can. If voters wanted politicians to work with the Democratic governor, they would have elected your Democratic opponents in the last election.

Mark Landsbaum is a Christian husband, father, grandfather and journalist who has written for a living for 43 years, ever since discovering he had no particular talents. He can be found on Facebook and LinkedIn, and in the archives of the Orange County Register, where he wrote a column for 10 years.